Israel Attacks Hamas During Meeting In Doha

Israel carried retired a onslaught connected elder Hamas leaders successful Qatar’s capital, Doha, connected Tuesday afternoon.
Qatar rapidly accused Israel of “reckless” behaviour and breaking planetary instrumentality aft the onslaught connected a residential premises successful the city.

The Israel Defence Forces claimed to person targeted those “directly liable for the brutal October 7 massacre”.

Explosions were heard and fume was seen rising supra the Qatari superior Doha aboriginal connected Tuesday afternoon.

Verified footage showed fume rising from a heavy damaged conception of a analyzable adjacent to Woqod petrol presumption connected Wadi Rawdan Street, adjacent the West Bay Lagoon territory northbound of cardinal Doha.

According to the Israeli military, it conducted a “precise strike” targeted astatine Hamas elder leaders successful Qatar utilizing “precise munitions”.

Israeli media says the cognition progressive 15 Israeli combatant jets, firing 10 munitions against a azygous target.
Qatar has hosted Hamas’s governmental bureau since 2012 and has played a cardinal relation successful facilitating indirect negotiations betwixt the radical and Israel since the 7 October attacks.

Hamas said members of the group’s negotiating delegation successful Doha were targeted but survived the strike. However, Hamas said six others, including a Qatari information official, were killed.

According to Hamas, those killed were: Humam Al-Hayya (Abu Yahya) – lad of main negotiator al-Hayya; Jihad Labad (Abu Bilal) – manager of al-Hayya’s office; Abdullah Abdul Wahid (Abu Khalil); Moamen Hassouna (Abu Omar); Ahmed Al-Mamluk (Abu Malik); Corporal Badr Saad Mohammed Al-Humaidi – Qatari interior information forces.

“We corroborate the enemy’s nonaccomplishment to assassinate our brothers successful the negotiating delegation,” a Hamas connection said.

The onslaught “confirms beyond uncertainty that Netanyahu and his authorities bash not privation to scope immoderate agreement” for peace.

Earlier successful a station connected X, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said it was “important and correct” to people Hamas’s leadership, and past condemned Khalil al-Hayya – Hamas’s main negotiator and exiled Gaza person – without confirming helium was a nonstop target.

A elder Israeli authoritative told Israeli media that al-Hayya was 1 of those targeted, arsenic good arsenic Zaher Jabarin, the exiled West Bank leader.

The bureau of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enactment retired a connection soon aft the strike, claiming the onslaught was “a wholly autarkic Israeli operation”.

“Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes afloat responsibility,” the connection said.

The White House besides rapidly confirmed it was informed of the operation, astir surely due to the fact that of the proximity of the immense US airbase astatine al-Udeid, conscionable extracurricular Doha.

In a station connected Truth Social immoderate hours aft the attack, Donald Trump said the onslaught was “a determination made by Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a determination made by me”.

The president said arsenic soon arsenic helium was notified of the attack, helium “immediately directed” US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to pass Qatar, but said the notification was made “too late” to halt it.

“I presumption Qatar arsenic a beardown Ally and person of the U.S., and consciousness precise severely astir the determination of the attack,” helium said successful the post, adding that helium had assured its leaders that “such a happening volition not hap again connected their soil”.

He added: “Unilaterally bombing wrong Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and adjacent Ally of the United States, that is moving precise hard and bravely taking risks with america to broker Peace, does not beforehand Israel oregon America’s goals. However, eliminating Hamas, which has profited disconnected the misery of those surviving successful Gaza, is simply a worthy goal.”

Questions stay implicit however the onslaught connected sovereign Qatari ungraded volition impact the al-Udeid US airbase and US relations with each its Gulf Arab allies.

Qatar has acted arsenic a mediator betwixt Israel and Hamas and has hosted negotiations betwixt them since October 2023.

A mates of days ago, Hamas said it welcomed “some ideas” from the US astir however to scope a Gaza ceasefire statement that it received done mediators. It said it discussed however to crook them “into a broad statement that meets the needs of our people”.

It’s thought apt that the targeted Hamas leaders were successful the mediate of discussing their ceremonial effect to the US ideas.

A Palestinian authoritative earlier told the BBC the US program would spot the 48 remaining hostages successful Gaza freed successful the archetypal 48 hours of a 60-day truce successful speech for Palestinian prisoners successful Israeli jails and good-faith negotiations connected a imperishable ceasefire.

In Doha, the Qatari authorities reacted furiou...